Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).

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Events proved Goering wrong, and in fact only a single territory was ever brought to surrender by air power alone the Italian island of Pantelleria, halfway between Sicily and Libya, in 1943.

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In its stead we have the virtues of unlimited empathy, fairness, solidarity, and the surrender of ever bigger slices of our take-home pay.

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As doctors slowly surrender their position as independent professionals and become public servants, with ever larger portions of their billings funneled through Uncle Sam, why should they expect to be given more choice in the way they are deployed than, say, members of the National Guard?

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